fluttering into four!

Our Emma Jane is officially a four-year-old!  She was so excited to celebrate her special day with friends.  Emma Jane has been planning this party for MONTHS!  She chose a butterfly theme and helped pick out many of the decorations and goody bag contents.  Our little artist also hand-stamped butterflies on the goody bags and painted the butterfly clips we used for one of the party treats.  Having a pool party was a MUST for this little fish and she had a ball!  Although the day started out with rain, we were lucky to have clear skies for the party.  Thank you to all of our wonderful friends who were able to attend and make this day so perfect for our birthday girl.    

Happy Birthday, Emma Jane!

We love you!

boogie baby and camera hog

Vivian loves to dance and she boogies every chance she gets.  I have been trying to capture our dancing queen on video for weeks now.  I finally caught her in the act while watching a show the other night, but her big sis had to steal the limelight.  Regardless, I thought this video was pretty funny, not to mention typical of the sister dynamic in our house!  Make sure to watch little Vivi in the background...she's quite entertaining!

mommy song

Vivian loves to "sing" and she made up this little diddy while shopping at Lowe's with yours truly the other day.  I call it the "Mommy Song" and she sings it on a regular basis now.  It's good to be loved!

uh oh!

This pitiful picture was taken when little Viv accidently fell into the dog toy basket and couldn't get out! Of course, I had to snap a picture before pulling her out. I know, I know...bad mom! Anyway, the expression on Vivi's face in this particular picture is exactly how I have felt these past few days after I made a horrible mistake in regards to this very blog.

If you haven't noticed, ALL of the pictures in every one of my 450+ blog posts (over 3 years worth) have disappeared. Poof! Gone! After a folder of over 500 pics popped up on my new smartphone, I absentmindedly deleted the folder thinking that I was only deleting them from my phone. Apparently that was not the case! Somehow all of the pics on my blog were placed in a folder and sent to the picture gallery on my phone. I'm still clueless as to how this happened and devastated that I deleted the folder. I have since restored a few of the most recent blog posts, but will be working hours on end to restore all the other posts. The good news is that I still have all of the pics stored in various other places and the journaling for each post is still intact. Many sleepless nights are in my future, but I am determined to fix the problem and then find some way to print all blog posts so that my hard work and precious memories will not be lost!